• Adnan A Alseidi, H William Craver, Andrew J Dennis, Abbey Fingeret, Gerald M Fried, Bonnie Simpson Mason, Ranjan Sudan, Stephen C Yang, and Henri R Ford.
• Professor of Clinical Surgery and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco.
• Ann. Surg. 2024 Jul 23.

ObjectiveTo update and add to the first report commissioned by the Blue Ribbon Committee about 20 years prior.Summary Of Background DataFollowing a summit in late 2022 commissioned by the American Board of Surgery regarding competency-based reforms in surgical education and via a partnership with the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and other stakeholders, a Blue Ribbon Committee (BRC-II) on surgical education was formed. The BRC-II would have seven subcommittees. This paper details the work of the Medical Student Subcommittee within the BRC- II.MethodsThe subcommittee's work, supported by staff from the ACS, entailed a thorough literature review, which involved collating and aggregating the findings, identifying key challenges and opportunities, and committing to draft recommendations. These recommendations were then presented and refined via discussions with the Blue Ribbon Committee at large in multiple virtual and in-person settings.ResultsThe subcommittee's work is detailed below and further summarized in table format. The section below elucidates the medical student education continuum and discusses the pertinent topics of recruitment, surgical engagement in medical student training and the surgical image, training for the current surgical practice model, trainee selection for graduate medical education (GME), and optimizing the transition from undergraduate medical education (UME) to GME.ConclusionsThe last two decades have shown significant changes and shifts in medical education and surgical practice. The findings of BRC-II in this manuscript help to structure the current and future necessary improvements, focusing on different aspects of medical student education.Copyright © 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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